HARARE – MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has rejected Zanu PF’s suggestion for a vote recount saying the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has tempered with the ballot boxes. This comes after Zanu PF secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana and head of the party’s legal team said the petition filed by the MDC Alliance lacked…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s international attorneys contesting President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the July 30 harmonised elections have applied for authority to work in the country. This emerges after Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi indicated that top South Africa advocates Jeremy Gauntlet, Dali Mpofu and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi had not sought clearance from him…
HARARE – Steward Bank has launched a multi-million dollar healthcare fund to facilitate the recapitalisation and mordenisation of commercial healthcare facilities in Zimbabwe. In a statement, the banking subsidiary of telecoms giant Econet Wireless, unveiled the $100 million fund, which is expected to stimulate the resuscitation of the country’s healthcare facilities. The healthcare facility comes…
HARARE – Sections of Samora Machel Avenue in Harare will be closed on Wednesday to make way for the presidential election petition hearing at the Constitutional Court (Con-Court). “The Judicial Services Commission (JSC) wishes to advise members of the public that on Wednesday, 22nd August, Samora Machel Avenue between Sam Nujoma Street and Simon V…
HARARE – Police have called on the public to go and identify an unclaimed body of a 40-year-old man in the Marondera Hospital Mortuary. National police spokesperson Charity Charamba said: “The ZRP would like to appeal to members of the general public who may be missing their male relative to proceed to Marondera Hospital Mortuary…
HARARE – Enraged opposition parties said there was real danger that Zanu PF could use its two-thirds majority in Parliament to drag Zimbabwe into the Stone Age, when the rest of the world is moving towards expanding democratic values. Opposition parties canvassed by the Daily News said it was unheard of in the 21st Century…
HARARE – Zimbabwe risks confirming its pariah status in spite of claims by the new dispensation that it has broken away from former president Robert Mugabe’s autocratic rule if it tweaks with the Constitution in order to shut out MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa from participating in future elections. According to analysts, pushing the presidential…
HARARE – President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa should take full responsibility for the fatal shooting of six civilians by the army, which occurred in Harare on August 1, during protests by alleged MDC Alliance supporters demanding the immediate release of presidential results. While the army fired live ammunition on unarmed, fleeing civilians — resulting in the death…
HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC)’s department of town planning is set to review its fees as the municipality continues to look for ways to boost its revenue. According to minutes of council’s Environmental Committee, HCC’s director of works Zvenyika Chawatama has been asked to submit an exhaustive list of fee categories to be…
HARARE – More than 100 residents in the high-density suburb of Glen View have endured flowing raw sewage on their streets for nearly three weeks with no action coming from the Harare City Council (HCC)’s water department. The sewer pipes reportedly burst last month, and up to now there has not been any action by…
